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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE POSITIVE PROJECT™ LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE USER INTERFACE
Moon Valley Software co-sponsors prominent HIV/AIDS non-profit organization,
will attend 2009 United States Conference on AIDS
ARROYO GRANDE, CA, October
27, 2009 – The Positive Project, a non-profit awareness, advocacy, and
prevention organization in ongoing partnership with Moon Valley Software, has
expanded its website through a new user interface, offering over 1,500
searchable interview videos from those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The new
website, which is already up and running, builds off an earlier version
engineered and maintained by Moon Valley, and will continue to add interviewees
who represent the full range of HIV/AIDS-related experiences, from diagnosis and
coping to treatment and changes in daily life.
The new website focuses
heavily on video clips to offer a humanized, first-person perspective on the
disease, furthering The Positive Project’s stated goal: “To provide a mechanism by which
people infected/affected by HIV/AIDS can share their experiences with those who
can benefit from hearing them, to use their stories for a greater good.”
Demonstrating Moon Valley’s
enduring support for these goals, Senior Software Engineer Jerry Riggle will
join representatives from The Positive Project at this weekend’s (October 29-31)
United States Conference on AIDS in San Francisco. The conference, hosted by the
National Minority AIDS Council, is the nation’s largest AIDS-related gathering,
drawing in participants from all sides of the issue, from physicians and public
health workers to policy-makers, to work toward addressing the challenges of the
disease.
Moon
Valley’s involvement with both the
Positive Project and the conference was a no-brainer. “Shortly after agreeing to
pitch in, we fell in love. If you spend 5 minutes listening to just a few
of the many stories, you're engaged,” said Pete Ryan, CEO. “The mission of the
Positive Project […] is right in line with much of what we do everyday for commerce on the internet.
Choosing to direct some of that energy and know-how to a non-profit such as the
Positive Project was an easy decision.”
To learn more about The
Positive Project, visit their website at
www.thepositiveproject.org; for more information on this year’s USCA conference, visit www.2009usca.org.
Moon
Valley
Software, founded in 1988 in Phoenix,
Arizona, provides fast, accurate, and comprehensive data
enhancement services to online publishers of business directories and other
media.
The Positive Project
According to the website, The
Positive Project grew from the collective experience of a pair of mental health
professionals; it was established as a non-profit organization in 2000. Their
experiences with individuals infected or affected by HIV/AIDS led to the
realization that few ever hear the firsthand accounts from the afflicted
themselves. The result was The Positive Project, which seeks to shift the focus
from the disease itself to the real people who deal with it every day.
CEO Pete Ryan discussed how Moon
Valley became affiliated: “We were asked by a business
partner if we could help them. It turns out that one of their employees is
a board member and put out the word that The Positive Project could use a
technology partner.”
The Positive Project is accepting donations online or by mail at
The Positive Project,
1221 South Clarkson Street, #302, Denver,
CO 80210.
National Minority AIDS Council
The National Minority AIDS
Council has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS awareness, advocacy, and research
since its in inception in January 1986. This year’s USCA conference is the
thirteenth hosted by the organization. NMAC
represents a coalition of 3,000 HIV/AIDS service organizations and other
dedicated people delivering services to the HIV/AIDS-afflicted nationwide. They
are wholly funded through private donors.
These are the topics for the 2009 USCA conference:
Building Healthy
Organizations; Care and Primary Care; Housing; International Issues; Prevention;
Public Policy; Special Issues; and Treatment and Research.
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